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As they report in Plant Species Biology, the petals of Drosera tokaiensis and Drosera spatulate fold up within two to 10 minutes after parts of their stem, calyx, or closed flowers are pressed with tweezers.

There’s something about that flared, spatulate bill that we find endearing, and humans are drawn to defend the charismatic, the peculiar, and the unique.

He was a sad, birdlike man with the spatulate face and scrubbed, tapering features of a well-groomed rat.

The report concludes that the “spatulate shape of his hand and finger tips probably account for his restless energy.”

Leaves flat, lanceolate, the lowest spatulate, tapering into a petiole.